Word: pelt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convicted slayer of Charles P. Van Pelt '54 yesterday asked for a new trial on the grounds that "self-defense does not impute an intent to kill...
...Pelt was killed while on a hunting trip with friends last summer. Sallade testified he mistook him for a burglar...
...crown as a crest, announcing the arrival of "this superb new fur." In Manhattan last week, at the first fur auction of the new season, it was obvious that "Jasmine," a new white fur, was indeed the new queen of the minks. It sold as high as $155 a pelt, then settled down to around $70 v. about $20 for darker, standard pelts...
Silverblu mink, the first commercially successful mutation, brought as much as $260 a pelt ten years ago. Now it is down to about $30. Sapphire, new two years ago, sold for as much as $110 when it first hit the market. Now, with production up from 30,000 to some 200,000 pelts in 1952, it averages about...
...most mink-hunting women have little idea of how or where the coats come from. At a mink ranch not long ago, a woman visitor asked: "How many times a year do you pelt the animals?" Answered the scornful rancher, deadpan: "Well, we used to pelt twice a year, but it was hard on the minks, so we cut it down to once...